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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木火一山 (DFMU), four-corner 49911, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 525, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14758
  • Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1198, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6844

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ, *kʷraːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋʔ
*ɡʷaːŋʔ
*ɡʷaːŋʔ
*ɡʷaːŋʔ
*kʷraːŋ
*kʷeːŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (102) (102)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kwɑŋ/ /kwɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑŋ/ /kʷɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑŋ/ /kuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwaŋ/ /kwaŋH/
Li
Rong
/kuɑŋ/ /kuɑŋH/
Wang
Li
/kuɑŋ/ /kuɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kwɑŋ/ /kwɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guāng guàng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4509 4516
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʷaːŋ/ /*kʷaːŋs/

Definitions

  1. coir-palm (Rhapis excelsa)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwang) (hangeul , revised gwang, McCune-Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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